Shipyard announced it is winding down IPFS work: [image] The end of IPFS at Shipyard We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled Protocol Labs declined to renew the funding, and the proj…

+1, I have been through the forum, the blogs and chat, and there is nothing anywhere on this. Narrowing the question: who maintains the Go and JS implementations after September 30? Boxo, Helia, IPFS Desktop (Kubo).

@hector do you plan any official announcements/proposals here? Especially it is important to know what will happen with the main Boxo/Kubo repositories.

[image] twdragon: @hector do you plan any official announcements/proposals here? I don’t work on Shipyard or anything related to IPFS, so not privy to any information. I saw someone published IPFS is moving beyond the sponsored gateways | IPFS Blog & News though. Which doesn’t really answer y…

Hi, just joined your group. An investigation team I work with were looking at using IPFS as an alternative to YouTube’s algorithms being abused by malicious actors. We have good funding and can crowd-source. Can anyone put me in direct contact with someone who can discuss what you would need? Tha…

[image] Fraudulent IPFS Link targeting Services Australia myGov Site Feedback Just came across a fraudulent phishing site slight_smile https://bafkreighon6lmp6qvxcj4ct4pie2che7gae5rcuyk5q5fuln7m6yxfq4gu.ipfs.inbrowser.link/ this URL is masquerading as Service …

Depressing addendum: not only did core software lose continuity, we can’t even talk about it. Whoever took over broke its Matrix delegation, so people can no longer join #ipfs-space:ipfs.io https://federationtester.matrix.org/api/report?server_name=ipfs.io 'Get "https://ipfs.io/.well-known/matrix/…

Maybe, maybe not: ➜ ~ ipfs cat /ipns/ipfs.io/.well-known/matrix/server { "m.server": "ipfs.ems.host:443" } ➜ ~ dig +short ipfs.ems.host k8s-core-coreingr-e213c56b76-ef68a8798c5364b0.elb.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com. 3.66.50.240 ➜ ~ openssl s_client -connect ipfs.ems.host:443 Connecting to 2a05…

See the linked diagnostic tool: IPFS Matrix Space is dead for new users. Also: https://dist.ipfs.tech is dead https://ipfscluster.io is dead https://trustles-gateway.link is dead

This is a bummer. I’ve had a feeling that IPFS was being propped up by a reducing number of maintainers for a while. The underlying design of IPFS is awesome, however deploying it at any kind of scale has bitten me in a big way multiple times. File / Data CID’s are complex / impossible to calcul…

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Chara-Freedom September 13, 2026, 11:32am 10

Those are very good questions, so sad that they remain unanswered.

Come on guys, just tell us everything, we can live with it.

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